Rational choice theory enjoys unprecedented popularity and influence in the behavioral and
social sciences, but it generates intractable problems when applied to socially interactive …

▪ Abstract This article reviews the use of experiments in political science. The beginning
section offers an overview of experimental design and measures, as well as threats to …

Game theory, the formalized study of strategy, began in the 1940s by asking how
emotionless geniuses should play games, but ignored until recently how average people …

This article investigates the use of standard econometric models for quantal choice to study
equilibria of extensive form games. Players make choices based on a quantal-choice model …

More than half a century after the first experiment on the finitely repeated prisoner's dilemma,
evidence on whether cooperation decreases with experience—as suggested by backward …

Although strategic interaction is at the heart of most international relations theory, it has
largely been missing from much empirical analysis in the field. Typical applications of logit …

We present experimental results on groups facing a decision problem analogous to that
faced by a jury. We consider three treatment variables: group size (three or six), number of …

At present much of political science consists of a large body of formal mathematical work that
remains largely unexplored empirically and an expanding use of sophisticated statistical …

Two experiments compared the Centipede game played either by 2 individuals or by 2 (3-
person) groups. The 2 competitors alternate in deciding whether to take the larger portion of …

The quantal response equilibrium (QRE) notion of Richard D. McKelvey and Thomas R.
Palfrey (1995) has recently attracted considerable attention, due in part to its widely …